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The University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Concert: Rachmaninoff’s 150th.

The first University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra concert of 2023 celebrates 150 years to the day that Sergei Rachmaninoff was born. What better way to commemorate this prolific composer/pianist/conductor’s birthday than by performing his glorious second symphony in E minor – a work that remains one of his most popular and deeply moving works. Lasting exactly an hour, you’ll be swept up in this brooding and highly emotional work.

Before the interval, guitarist Nathan Sinclair (joint winner of the 2021 Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Concerto-Aria prize) will play Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. Written in 1939, Rodrigo stated that the piece describes ‘the fragrance of magnolias, the singing of birds and the gushing of fountains’ in the gardens of Aranjuez.

Opening with Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling Capriccio Espagnol, a short piece featuring a cascade of cadenzas and ending with a frenzied fandango.

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Artists

Richard Davis conductor
Nathan Sinclair guitar soloist